| 14.12.200916:46 (GMT) | In Poland, prosecutors in Warsaw have opened a criminal probe into reports that the CIA operated a prison for Al-Qaeda suspects in this country. The Polish Helsinki Human Rights Defence Fund requested the Chief Prosecutor’s Office to give explanations on the situation on the secret CIA prisons which reportedly were located in Poland in 2002-2005, Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reports.
"The court of appeal in Warsaw, which has been conducting investigation of the case does not give out any information on its course, explaining that by secret of investigation,”news agency cites Adam Bodnar, lawyer of a human rights organization.
In February, 2009, the Chief Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw admitted that the planes of the US CIA had landed secretly in Poland. Military expert of the Human Rights Watch, Marc Garlasco, said in an interview to daily Gazeta Wyborcza, that at least 24 alleged terrorists were kept in Poland and they were interrogated at least in two places, in a secret prison in the vicinity of Szymany airport, and a bigger prison in southern Poland.
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